Vanitas Astrea was dead.
This was not speculation, but a fact.
From what Karina had gathered, he had been found hanging in his cell. The reports labeled it a suicide. Karina scoffed at that notion. Vanitas Astrea was not the kind of man who would end his life so simply.
No, from how the situation unraveled, it was clear that Desmond had struck first.
"…."
A chain of events that should never have happened followed. An accident that led to Charlotte Astrea's death at the hands of Desmond Wyndale, and in response, Vanitas took matters into his own hands.
None of it made sense.
This was not how things were supposed to happen.
Most importantly, Karina had never once made contact with Vanitas Astrea in this timeline. She had deliberately stayed away, believing it would be safer.
That by removing herself from his life entirely, she could observe what would happen if she had never been by his side to begin with.
And yet, everything still led here.
